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Source Description
The right side and top of the head with the right ear and parts of the front and back of neck and bust are preserved. The photograph shows the fragments with a plaster cast of a face in the Palazzo dei Conservatori that is said to be from the same find location on the Via del Babuino, Rome.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
22792
label
Fragments of a Head
core
obj
dtoType
sculpture
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
id
22792
sourceUrl
contentType
sculpture
stage
normalized
title
Fragments of a Head
description
The right side and top of the head with the right ear and parts of the front and back of neck and bust are preserved. The photograph shows the fragments with a plaster cast of a face in the Palazzo dei Conservatori that is said to be from the same find location on the Via del Babuino, Rome.
provenance
[Found with a cache of several heads, via del Babuino, Rome, 1880]; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, by 1894 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1st century CE (Roman Imperial)
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Sculpture
heads
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1
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1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H: 17 1/16 in. (43.3 cm)
Source extras
cul
Roman
dynasty
Julio-Claudian
med
bronze
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6191
collection_ids
ROM
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
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1
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0
type
photo
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